March 2009
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Obama EPA halts mountaintop removal projects
After eight years of near-total environmental idiocy, headlines like this are a huge relief.
For those unacquainted with mountaintop removal, it consists of blasting the tops off of entire mountains in order to more profitably get at the coal underneath. The huge amounts of blast debris are then dumped into the most convenient stream/valley, choking and laying waste to previously lively...
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“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life:...”
– John Rogers at Kung Fu Monkey, via Daily Kos (via Balloon Juice)
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Freegan Living →
Via dontshushme:
Interesting read on freegans - “radical environmentalists (typically vegan) who reject our wasteful consumer culture by living almost entirely on what others throw away.”
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“Although animal rights groups decry the castrating of cattle, pigs and sheep as...”
– That’s Patricia Leigh Brown, NY Times reporter who wrote this… thing… on the cultural practice of the celebratory eating of other animals’ testicles in the Western United States. Perhaps needless to say, the thing is a profile in human small-ness and speciousness.
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“Steal a little and they throw you in jail / Steal a lot and they make you king.”
– Bob Dylan, “Sweetheart Like You” (via TPM)
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Nell Alk does Calvin Harris
My good friend Nell has been blogging ALL OVER Paper Mag’s site — all over it! — including this post about Calvin Harris’ set in the East Village Fri night.
Happy reading.
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“I was vegan for a while up until recently. Then I started eating people. Only...”
– Chris Hannah, lead singer of Propagandhi
2/12/09 — Highline Ballroom
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from fred-wilson
“I’m An...
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“I’m not gonna say it on TV.”
– That’s Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s Mad Money with Jim Cramer (and real-world Gordon Gecko), while he discusses “the way the market really works.” There are plenty of gems in the video below, including:
What’s important when you’re in that hedge fund mode is to...
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Sen. Schumer, gasbag
The EPA is finally moving towards requiring large industrial greenhouse gas emitters to monitor and report their emissions. Despite the fact that factory torture-and-death farms — excuse me, “industrial livestock producers” — are the biggest contributors to climate change, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has introduced bill S. 527 to exempt them from the EPA’s rules.
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“What if the crisis of 2008 represents something much more fundamental than a...”
– Thomas Friedman in the NY Times, who clearly needs to be reading our blog more often. “What if,” indeed.
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Neoliberalism
Stanley Fish recently had a pretty astute and mercifully detached essay in The NY Times examining “neoliberalism.” A key passage:
Here is an often cited definition by Paul Treanor: “Neoliberalism is a philosophy in which the existence and operation of a market are valued in themselves, separately from any previous relationship with the production of goods and services… and...
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CNBC's had it coming for a while now...
…and Jon Stewart gives it to them.
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There's a vegan on cable news
Jane Velez-Mitchell hosts Issues on CNN-operated HLN (formerly Headline News). So far, she’s doing significantly better than her predecessor — chronic narcissist and recent Fox News hiree Glenn Beck — in the 7pm time slot.